Favorites of 2017 (the shortlist)

I'm still working towards a favorites list, so this is my shortlist, selected from the big list yesterday. Again, note that these were not necessarily brand-new polishes in 2017, just ones that I wore for the first time.

• China Glaze Where's the Party Canon At? (pink glitter topper)
• Colourpop I Wand It That Way (iridescent glitter topper)
• Colourpop Pixi-lated (light-blue creme)
• Formula X Marine (marine-blue texture)
• ILNP High Tide (blue-green holo)
• Insta-Dri Cherry Fast (cherry creme)
• KBShimmer So Jelly ("unicorn pee" shifty pigment in a jelly base)
• KL Polish Das Esspensive XXV (champagne glitter)
• KL Polish Prince Cornelious (red-brown microglitter)
• Miracle Gel Adrenaline Crush (plummy-brown metallic)
• Misa When U Say My Name (brown shimmer)
• Morgan Taylor The Last Petal (blackened pink)
• OPI Turn On the Northern Lights! (dark blue with shifty tendencies)
• Revlon Hypnotic (bright shimmery pink)
• Wet n Wild Peri-wink-le of an Eye (periwinkle creme)
• Zoya Destiny (red-orange Pixie Dust)

I've been pulling out the discontinued polishes from this list (I left Pixi-lated, since it's still in stock). Going by the brand's own websites, that takes out these:

• Cherry Fast (discontinued, and this one surprised me - I guess it didn't survive the recent re-do)
• Das Esspensive XXV (limited edition)
• I Wand It That Way (discontinued)
• Marine (brand discontinued)
• So Jelly (limited edition)
• The Last Petal (limited edition Beauty & the Beast tie-in)

I usually call those my Honorable Mentions. My rules are not exactly set in stone, so it's not like I couldn't let one of these go into the top 10 if I really wanted to, but I don't think I do. (So Jelly and Das Esspensive are the ones that might be serious candidates. I called Das Esspensive my favorite of the first half, but I don't know, I'm not feeling it so much now.)

And that leaves me with a top 10 for 2017 (in alphabetical order):

• Adrenaline Crush
• Destiny 
• High Tide
• Hypnotic
• Peri-wink-le of an Eye
• Pixi-lated
• Prince Cornelious
• Turn On the Northern Lights!
• When U Say My Name
• Where's the Party Canon At?

The surprising thing to me is that there are still a couple of cremes in the running. That's unusual for me.

A couple of pictures - Hypnotic & Das Esspensive XXV: